American rider concedes that the best man won Paris-Nice as he looks ahead to the Tour Having finished second overall in the 2013 Paris-Nice, Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) vowed to return to the Race to the Sun and win in the [...]
Ambitions being revised after Australian’s solo victory With a mountainous but potentially indecisive stage to follow today in Paris-Nice plus an uphill time trial that will most likely not see race leader Riche Porte (Sky) lose any significant time, two [...]
RadioShack Leopard directeur sportif suggests rider is being held back by thoughts of his crash Currently 138th overall, six minutes and 38 seconds behind the overall winner Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma Quick Step), Andy Schleck may be improving but he [...]
World champion starts series defence in perfect fashion in the freezing rain of the north east Netherlands Marianne Vos (Rabobank-Liv/Giant) took her third straight victory in the Ronde van Drenthe, the opening round of the 2013 Women’s World Cup, after [...]
Kwiatkowski holds off Briton in overall standings, takes over race lead from Cavendish Having already taken the Tour of Oman this season, Chris Froome (Sky) underlined his strong early-season form again today in Tirreno Adriatico today when he took a [...]
Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider takes sprint from much-reduced peloton Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) won the sixth stage of the 2013 Paris-Nice, between Manosque and Nice, as he outsprinted a much-reduced peloton on the famous Promenade des Anglais. The former [...]
Swede takes NetApp-Endura’s first victory of 2013 as German team fills the podium Alexander Wetterhall (NetApp-Endura) took his team’s first win of the 2013 season as he soloed to victory in the Ronde van Drenthe in freezing, rainy conditions. The [...]
Polish rider the surprise of the queen stage, seizes blue jersey with strong ride Although he’s a past junior world time trial champion and was the runner-up in last year’s Tour of Poland, Michal Kwiatkowski today surprised many when he [...]
American veteran says he’ll fight for a podium finish in the general classification Riding his first UCI race of the season, Chris Horner underlined his current good form with a strong ride on today’s queen stage of Tirreno Adriatico. The [...]
Iglinskiy second on yesterday’s stage, Grivko remains second overall Having stated before the race that he was confident a strong showing was on the cards and that a top ten overall finish or better was his goal, Jakob Fuglsang instead [...]
Australian rider withdraws sick from Paris-Nice Simon Gerrans’ prospects of defending his Milan-Sanremo title has taken a knock with the Australian forced to withdraw from Paris-Nice prior to the start of today’s fifth stage of the race. According to Orica [...]
American rider close to yellow, but needs to recover more time from his rivals Sitting sixteen seconds off the race lead of Andrew Talansky heading into today’s fifth stage of Paris-Nice, BMC Racing Team leader for the event, Tejay van [...]
Crelan-Euphony, Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise, IAM Cycling, and Europcar get the nod for Dutch Classic The organisers of the Amstel Gold Race have announced the names of the teams that have been awarded the final four wildcards for this year’s race. Two [...]
Australian escapes the other favourites in the final kilometres to take stage and race lead Richie Porte (Team Sky) took his first victory in more than a year in the fifth stage of the 2013 Paris-Nice, between Châteauneuf-du-Pape and La [...]
Briton misses stage win but retains race lead Tour de France green jersey winner Peter Sagan clocked up a fine win on today’s third stage of Tirreno Adriatico, timing his finishing effort to perfection to defeat Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma [...]
Paris-Nice leadership changes nothing for Australian in Team Sky’s Grand Tour plans When Richie Porte (Team Sky) pulled on the Paris-Nice yellow jersey at the end of today’s fifth stage to La Montagne de Lure, it was the first time [...]
Russian rider caught by Porte inside final kilometre of stage Denis Menchov has looked on the bright side of his showing today in Paris-Nice, proclaiming himself ‘quite happy’ despite being caught and passed by Richie Porte close to the line [...]
